Movie Night and A Day of Dates

Decided to have family movie night on Friday

I had recorded Ratatouille and we had yet to watch it

So we picked up a pizza 

and popped some popcorn

and had a good night

Hello Cheek-y

My sweet, precious Colton is certainly in the 

TERRIBLE 2'S

Between that and the new baby brother

and daddy being gone for 6 months and

the move here

and our lack of a schedule during summer....

he is not sleeping well and biting

and just being a holy terror

So I thought a little one on one time would be nice

I gave him 3 choices

the dinosaur museum, putt-putt, or the zoo

and in that order

I was really pushing the (indoor) museum

But my boy choose the zoo

We enjoyed the water feature in the children's section 

just the 2 of us

barefoot and holding hands thru the running stream

We saw some other mommy's and babies

Then we went to visit our gorilla Big Mamma

There she is looking sad as usual

Wonder why we call everyone "Big Mamma"?

Anyway, the zoo keeper was there taking her notes on the gorillas activities

And we got to learn some little tidbits about our friend

BM is actually 47 or 48 years old and came from Africa

She is the mother of 8 and nursed all her babies

That explains the droopy boobs and sad face

She is the grandmother of the youngest one (6) in their living area

Gorillas in captivity live to around 50

She had her last baby at 41, which is very late in Gorilla years

The zookeeper also said Big Mamma was a very good name for her

So there is your animal lesson for the day folks!!!

WTH

Who took all the leaves from the bottom branches

So our time together at the zoo was nice

and HOT

and short

We headed to Chic-fil-A for lunch and were still home by noonish for nap

That afternoon Mark and Connor went to the movies

and then they camped out in the basement that night

As much as I love family time and always want to encourage group activities

The boys really thrive when they are seperated

Perhaps I have treated them more like twins than I should have?

If you ask Colton how old he is

He will tell you 4

And he believes it

Sunday we all went to try the "best" Mexican restaurant in town

We don't typically go to non-fast food places with all of us

Not that our boys are bad

They use table manners and we try to time it right

But it is often a beating

I know some of you other moms know what I am talking about

As the mom, you don't really get to enjoy the food or being served

You have to keep knives out of the way

or drinks from being spilled

or feed babies

or make sure food gets into the right tummies

But it was GREAT food

and everyone was truly on their best behavior

The best part....

it is literally right down the street

Well worth the effort

So there was my weekend

Life with Boys

is fun

(most of the time)